-Use the “Cached” link in Google to view this story if you can’t access the site-Spam bots are searching the pages of the net, thinking they can get their referrers published on blogs.

They’re easy to point out in the list. They usually have referrers like:
http://star-poker.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://cialis.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://poker-tournaments.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://student-loan.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://mortgage-company.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://poker-tables.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://poker-rooms.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://mortgage-broker.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://internet-poker.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://home-mortgage-loan.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://casino-poker.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://poker-hands.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://texas-mortgage-loans.tecrep-inc.net/,
http://free-online-poker.tecrep-inc.net/,
and various other subdomains of “tecrep-inc.net”.

so, after blocking referrers that contain “tecrep-inc.net”, they show up again…using an IP as a referrer:
http://12.163.72.13/. Now the IP is included in the referrer block list.

Just looking at where these requests are coming from, i’d say they’re computers that are infected with a Trojan. An army of drones that browse the net looking for more computers to infect and collect email addresses on the net to send spam to, and while they do so advertise websites that collect more email addresses.

If this isn’t orgenized crime, I don’t know what it.

The registrant of these domains is a “Jane Phill” (fake name), 61 Street, NYC (fake address). Other domains have also been registered with that name to be used in the same manner.

I used the term “orgenized crime” above. Let me show you why.
Spamming is a multimillion dollar “business” that script kiddies and criminals use, to make large sums of “easy” money. The business model is roughly as follows:

Let’s say you make money by selling placebo wrapped in Viagra packaging.
You need people to sell your products to. To be more precise, you need idiots that are new to the internet to sell your products to. You need advertising. You need a target audience that is stupid enough to read your messages and buy your products.

What you need is a way of directly advertising your products to as many people as possible. And since you’re selling fake viagra, you aren’t exactly worries about the legality of spamming. All you know is that you need idiots (your target audience) that read spam with the same joy they read christmas cards.

Who? Me?
So you want to send out spam, but you don’t want to get caught. You hire someone to send the spam out for you. You hire Self.Propelled.Advertising.Mailers Inc, a script kiddie group that sends out your spam for you. But the good people at S.P.A.M Inc don’t want to get caught either. Here’s where the same idiots that buy your products come in.

“Why the hell is my computer so slow?”
Enter “Joe”. Joe has just bought a brand new computer. He’s 50 years old and never used a computer before, but he’s pretty sure he knows what he’s doing. He also got himself an internet connection.

Joe thinks he’s pretty good with computers, so he reads the manuals and sets up his internet connection all by himself and after only 30 minutes, Joe is enjoying his first porn site.

After clicking around for 10 minutes on links and images he has never seen before, his computer crashes. He thinks nothing of it since he was told that computers crash often. “Oh, well…” And so, he restarts his computer.

Joe’s computer was online without a firewall. Joe’s computer is fucked. Joe doesn’t know he has a Trojan on his computer. he didn’t know that after only 2 minutes of being only, his computer was infected with a number of Trojans. He doesn’t even know what a Trojan is.

One of the Trojan that out buddy Joe has on his computer was written by our good friends at S.P.A.M Inc.

The people at S.P.A.M Inc now have full control over Joe’s computer like thousands of other computers infected with their Trojan. They can now use the infected computers to send out the spam mails of their clients (like our Viagra selling buddy) without being caught, since it’s computers like Joe’s that are sending out the actual spam.

You get the spam mails, some of you fall for it and buy stuff advertised in those emails, or click on the links inside them to either confirm that your email address is real or to download a Trojan of your own. Meanwhile the people at S.P.A.M Inc get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for their “services” as advertisers.

For more info on referrer spammers or abusive advertisers read this blog.

UPDATE: New domain added to block list (from the same idiots): learnhowtoplay.com and a few IPs to go with them (194.241.45.5 and 82.194.62.16)

PS: Spam this email address: [email]acyon@acyon.com” title=”[/email] , the makers of the ref-spam software. A bunch of assholes if you ask me.

Also see “htaccess rules that leave referrer spammers feeling left out”

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